Tag Archives: East Coast Rap

They didn’t gain just as much critical hype as other acts within the independent rap scene (perhaps because of a laid-back release schedule), but Black Moon continues to be among its better acts. Buckshot, 5Ft, and DJ Bad Dee debuted in 1993 with Enta da Stage, a fantastic recording with …

TRAINING Clik is really a loose congregation featuring similar-minded underground hardcore rappers like Originoo Gunn Clapaz, Cocoa Brovaz, Buckshot, Heltah Skeltah, Bucktown Juveniles, Jahdan, and Illa Noyz, most of whom are worried approximately keeping the music true and on a road level. That meant a lot of the music on …

Acquiring his moniker through the Bernardo Bertolucci film epic of the same name, this West Philadelphia native continues to be an underground hip-hop mover and shaker because the mid-’90s. Having went to Overbrook Great, Philadelphia’s very own hip-hop high, which noticed famous brands Great C, Steady B, and the new …

Queens, NY-based rap team IV-V-VI comprised MCs Mike Myers, Big Nem and Surprise 6. The trio’s debut recording Nu Day time Dawnin’ premiered in 1999.

Sick Al Skratch had some short-lived mainstream success within the middle-’90s with Creep Wit’ Me personally, the duo’s 1994 debut recording. Two singles from Creep Wit’ Me — “Where My Homiez?” and “I’ll Consider Her” — produced some ground around the R&B graphs, the latter becoming the bigger strike because …

Born LaRon Adam in Harlem, the energetic Juelz Santana trim his teeth seeing that an MC using the duo Draft Get. He didn’t strike the big style until 2000, when Cam’ron granted him a visitor i’m all over this S.D.E.’s “Increase Up.” Santana joined up with Cam’ron’s Diplomats, added several …

An alum of past due-’80s/early-’90s fantastic age hip-hop, vicious Queensbridge lyricist Blaq Poet gradually slipped into his trustworthy underground status because the ’90s and 2000s progressed onwards. Known after that as MC Poet, he debuted within the mid-’80s using the ill-befitting dance-rap solitary “The Wopp Feeling.” Nevertheless, he regained floor …

Remembered for two stunning singles and their membership within the Local Tongues category of teams, Black color Sheep also documented among rap music’s most interesting debuts, A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothes. Handling both creation and delivery, Dres and Mista Lawnge made an appearance headed for an extended, rewarding profession, but …

Delivered and bred in Queensbridge, MC Killa Sha (aka Sha-Lumi) initial appeared in the 12″ one “The Tragedy (Don’t GET IT DONE)” in 1986 within a short-lived group named the Super Children with fellow Queens rappers Craig G (from the famed Juice Staff) and Tragedy Khadafi. Through the entire ’90s, …

A promising mid-’90s East Coastline rap duo from Virginia, Sick Biskits found their only full-length album, Chronicle of Two Losers: Initial Release (1996), get shelved by Atlantic Information within the eve of its business launch, only to end up being released over ten years later on. Founded in the first …